For faces like the faces that select
This for one day: now, serve as Guelf!
The single service I am bound effect,—
That bid me cast aside such fancies, bow
Taurello to the Guelf cause, disallow
The Kaiser's coming—which with heart, soul, strength,
I labor for, this eve, who feel at length
My past career's outrageous vanity,
And would, as it amends, die, even die
Now I first estimate the boon of life,